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January 20, 2018
Lilyanna De Los Santos, 7, and Jaelyn Araujo, 6, color masks at OdySea in the Desert.
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Waste Management Phoenix Open treads new turf
Scottsdale PD’s DNA unit receives boost from national grant
By Greg Macafee
By Jimmy Magahern
ASU alumnus Phil Mickelson has won the Waste Management Phoenix Open three times. (Photos special to Nearby News)
The Grand Canyon isn’t the only famous hole in Arizona. Every winter, a certain hole in Scottsdale gets surrounded by tens of thousands of screaming people who drink beer and loudly boo and cheer on the cue of giant LED lights telling them to “Make Some Noise.” Sometimes they get flipped off by professional athletes. Sometimes they make it rain plastic cups, like they did 20 years ago when an upstart named Tiger Woods took a 9-iron out of his bag and hit a holein-one.
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Kris Cano, forensic laboratory manager for Scottsdale PD’s Crime Laboratory. (Photo courtesy Scottsdale Police Department)
First of all, Kris Cano would like to make it known that in real life, a forensic investigator can’t get DNA “fast tracked” through the lab and have the results of the testing back in 15 minutes, like the characters can on CSI. “It’s not like you see on TV,” said Cano, forensic laboratory manager for the Scottsdale Police Department’s Crime Laboratory, located in the shadow of the Big Surf waterpark by Rio Salado Park. “We can’t turn around a sample the same day that we
DNA...continued on page 11
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